# 儡

| 儡 | U+5121, &#20769; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5121 |
| ← 儠 [U+5120] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 儢 → [U+5122] |

## Translingual
### Han character

儡 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+15, 17 strokes, cangjie input 人田田田 (OWWW), four-corner 2626$_0$, composition ⿰亻畾)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 120, character 16
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1249
* Dae Jaweon: page 254, character 14
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 234, character 6
* Unihan data for U+5121

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 儡
* Small seal scripts05888
* References:
* Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:
* Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
* Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
* Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
* Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
| | Old Chinese |
| 摞 | *roːl, *roːls |
| 騾 | *roːl |
| 螺 | *roːl |
| 蔂 | *roːl, *rul |
| 虆 | *roːl, *rul |
| 瘰 | *roːlʔ |
| 礌 | *ruːl, *ruːls |
| 雷 | *ruːl |
| 擂 | *ruːl, *ruːls |
| 攂 | *ruːl, *ruːls |
| 礧 | *ruːll, *ruːlʔ, *ruːls |
| 儡 | *ruːl, *ruːlʔ, *ruːls |
| 瓃 | *ruːl, *rul, *ruls |
| 櫑 | *ruːl, *ruːlʔ |
| 鑘 | *ruːl, *ruːlʔ |
| 鐳 | *ruːl |
| 畾 | *ruːl |
| 轠 | *ruːl, *rulʔ |
| 罍 | *ruːl |
| 蕾 | *ruːlʔ |
| 癗 | *ruːlʔ |
| 磥 | *ruːlʔ |
| 累 | *ruːls, *rolʔ, *rols |
| 儽 | *ruːls, *rul |
| 樏 | *rolʔ, *rul |
| 鸓 | *rul, *rulʔ |
| 嫘 | *rul |
| 纍 | *rul, *ruls |
| 欙 | *rul |
| 纝 | *rul |
| 壘 | *rulʔ |
| 櫐 | *rulʔ |
| 蘽 | *rulʔ |
| 藟 | *rulʔ |
| 讄 | *rulʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ruːl, *ruːlʔ, *ruːls) : semantic 人 (“man”) + phonetic 畾 (OC *ruːl)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lěi (lei$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄟˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi$^5$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lúi / lér / lé
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lěi
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄟˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lěi
*** Wade–Giles: lei$^3$
*** Yale: lěi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leei
*** Palladius: лэй (lɛj)
*** Sinological IPA : /leɪ̯²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: leoi$^5$
*** Yale: léuih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: loey$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lêu$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /lɵy̯¹³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lúi
*** Tâi-lô: luí
*** Phofsit Daibuun: luie
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /lui⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /lui⁵³/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lér
*** Tâi-lô: lér
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /lə⁵⁵⁴/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lé
*** Tâi-lô: lé
*** Phofsit Daibuun: lea
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /le⁴¹/
*** IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /le⁵³/
* lúi - literary;
* lér/lé - 禮 is used more in the Mainland.
* Middle Chinese: lwoj, lwojX
Rime :
| Character | 儡 | 儡 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 灰 (42) | 灰 (42) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | I | I |
| Fanqie | 魯回切 | 落猥切 |
| Baxter | lwoj | lwojX |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /luʌi/ | /luʌi$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /luoi/ | /luoi$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /luɒi/ | /luɒi$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /lwəj/ | /lwəj$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /luᴀi/ | /luᴀi$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /luɒi/ | /luɒi$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /luɑ̆i/ | /luɑ̆i$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | léi | lěi |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | leoi$^4$ | leoi$^5$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*ruːl/, /*ruːlʔ/, /*ruːls/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 儡 | 儡 | 儡 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| No. | 7711 | 7721 | 7731 |
| Phonetic component | 畾 | 畾 | 畾 |
| Rime group | 微 | 微 | 微 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 雷 | 磥 | 纇 |
| Old Chinese | /*ruːl/ | /*ruːlʔ/ | /*ruːls/ |

### Definitions

儡
* Only used in 傀儡 (kuǐlěi).

### Compounds

* 傀儡
* 傀儡家庭
* 傀儡戲 / 傀儡戏 (kuǐlěixì)
* 傀儡政權 / 傀儡政权 (kuǐlěi zhèngquán)
* 懸絲傀儡 / 悬丝傀儡
* 文樂傀儡 / 文乐傀儡
* 線抽傀儡 / 线抽傀儡
* 肉傀儡
* 藥發傀儡 / 药发傀儡
* 跳傀儡

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* puppet
* defeat

#### Readings

* Go-on: らい (rai)
* Kan-on: らい (rai)
* Kun: やぶれる (yabureru)、つかれる (tsukareru)

## Korean
### Etymology

From Middle Chinese 儡 (MC lwojX). Recorded as Middle Korean 뢰〯 (lwǒy) (Yale: lwǒy) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [ɾwe̞] ~ [ɾø̞] ~ [nwe̞] ~ [nø̞]
* Phonetic hangul: [뤠/뢰/눼/뇌]

### Hanja

Wikisource 儡 (eumhun 꼭두각시 뢰 (kkokdugaksi roe), word-initial (South Korea) 꼭두각시 뇌 (kkokdugaksi noe))
* hanja form of 뢰/뇌 (“puppet”)

#### Compounds

* 괴뢰 (傀儡, goeroe, “puppet”)
* 괴뢰군 (傀儡軍, goeroegun, “puppet army”)

### References

* 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

儡: Hán Nôm readings: lỗi
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